Cher Refuses To Attend Russia’s 2014 Olympics Over Anti-Gay Bigotry

First Andy Cohen, then Wentworth Miller, now Cher — everyone is telling Russia where to stuff it. (Well, not President Obama. Oh, Syria.) Cher revealed that she refused an invitation to serve as an “ambassador” at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Russia due to the country’s horrid criminalization of homosexuality. [Pink News UK]

Australia’s new prime minister Tony Abbott appointed only one woman to his Cabinet of 19 officials. [Washington Post]

A Turkish rape victim who is almost eight weeks pregnant is seeking approval to have an abortion. Between eight and 10 weeks of gestation, a woman is required to have court approval to terminate a pregnancy in the country. [Hurriyet Daily News]

Three women were murdered in a so-called “honor killing” in rural Pakistan. [Global Post]

A British court ruled a Muslim woman must remove her niqab (a face-covering veil) to give trial evidence. [BBC]

On why education is the best possible way to curb child marriage. [Pacific Standard]

The president of the student council at the University of Manitoba in Canada has been asked to resign after it was discovered that he had captioned an Instagram photograph of him tutoring a female student with remarks that he had been staring at her cleavage. [University Herald]

On British feminists’ ongoing campus to “lose the lad mags.” [WomensENews]

Leolah Brown, sister to Bobby Brown and aunt to Bobbi Kristina was kicked out of her niece’s funeral yesterday after verbally lashing at Pat Houston Bobbi Kristina’s former manager as well as sister-in-law to Bobbi Kristina’s mother Whitney Houston. Phew. That was a mouthful.